RAILWAY SMASH
ROUMANIAN DISASTER
Per Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right).
BUCHAREST, April 5. The death roll from the train smash is twenty-four.
Many victims were so mangled that their identification was impossible. 'flu' coaches crashed down an embankment.
Relief trains have been despatched to the scene.
The worst of the sixty injured bate been lodged at the Dolmen- Hospital. The others were brought to Bucharest. A blizzard has interrupted communications.
THE VICTIMS ROBBED
BUCHAREST. April 0.
The authorities state that the dead and the seriously wounded were robbed of all their valuables during the night following on the Buzeii train smash. The line is still impassable.
The pointsman, who disappeared alter the disaster, has surrendered to the police, asserting his innocence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1929, Page 6
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121RAILWAY SMASH Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1929, Page 6
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